Natural disasters impact transportation networks adversely and cause road sections to be
damaged or blocked. The road network may even become disconnected, impeding …

Sudden onset disasters can block roads and hinder relief logistics. With the objective of
facilitating access to critical locations in the disaster-stricken area, we propose a new …

In response to mass casualty incidents, medical aid must be provided to numerous victims
synchronously under challenging circumstances including uncertainty about the condition of …

We study how to allocate and route search-and-rescue teams to areas with trapped victims
in a coordinated manner after a disaster. We propose two online strategies for these time …

Disasters can disrupt road networks by blocking some of the roads and consequently
impeding accessibility to critical locations. In the immediate post-disaster response phase …

We present a novel online optimization approach to tackle the ambulance routing problem
on a road network, specifically designed to handle uncertainties in travel times, triage levels …

In the minimum latency problem, an undirected connected graph and a root node together
with non-negative edge distances are given to an agent. The agent looks for a tour starting …

In the context of Fifth Generation mobile networks (5G), Search and Rescue (SAR) missions
using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can benefit from a dynamic, intelligent, and …

Finding effective routes is critical to support the decision-making of first responders to save
lives in emergency and accident situations. Effective routing planning requires accurate …

In recent years we face many types of natural and man-created disasters such as tsunamis,
earthquakes, hurricanes, Covid-19 pandemic, terrorist attacks, floods, etc. which cause …